Islam in Haiti: history and Muslim population data

History of Islam in Haiti

The Republic of Haiti gained its independence from France in 1804 and has an area of 27,750 sq km. It consists of a third of the island of Hispaniola which it shares with the Dominican Republic, together with small islands close to the shore. A map of Haiti is presented in Figure 5.5.5. In the 1970s there were few Muslims who came from Morocco and Syria. According to the 2003 Census, the number of Muslims increased to 2,013 or 0.02% of the total population. The recent increase is due to the return of Haitians to Islam. Thus, assuming that the percentage of Muslims will continue to increase by 0.01 of a percentage point per decade; then the Muslim population is expected to remain less than 20,000 or 0.1% throughout of this century.

Historical Muslim population dataset for Haiti

The figures below are from the CoMPS historical dataset. Population values are expressed in thousands; 2100 is a modelled projection, not a present-day count.

For the full time series and visualisation, use the interactive map above.